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Quantum Initiative
Annual Quantum Symposium

2024 Agenda

Check in starts at 8:30 am; Virtual Attendees check in at 8:45 am ET

Day 1 – June 13, 2024

Time (EDT)Topic
9:00 AMWelcome and Introductions
Greg Byrd, Associate Director, IBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State
Mladen Vouk, Vice Chancellor, Office of Research and Innovation, NC State University
9:15 AMIBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State: State-of-the-QIC
Dan Stancil, NC State University
IBM QICs
9:45 AM Brandon Musarra, Program Administrator, Cleveland Clinic
10:15 AM Break (15 min)
10:30 AMOsama Raisuddin, Research Scientist, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Student Engagement
11:00 AMQuantum Computing Club at NC State
Arsalaan Khan, Co-President
11:15 AMKeynote Speaker
Jamie Thomas, IBM
12:00 PMLunch Buffet
1:00 PMKeynote Speaker
Rob Moore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2:00 PMNC State Quantum Institute Future Vision
Greg Byrd, NC State University
2:30 PMBreak (15 min)
Invited Speakers
2:45 PMEd Chen, IBM, Dynamic circuits for quantum simulation and entanglement generation
3:10 PMMohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi, Lehigh, Recent Advances in Quantum Interior Point Methods
3:35 PMIdalia Friedson, Strangeworks, Practical Applications for Quantum Computing Today
4:00 PMPhil Emer, MCNC, NC Quantum Networking Testbed
4:25 PMYuan Liu, NC State University, Towards Mixed Analog-Digital Quantum Signal Processing
4:50 PMThank You and Adjournment to Reception
5:15 - 7:15 PMReception at the Art Walk and IEI Commons

Day 2 – June 14, 2024

Time (EDT)Topic
9:00 AMWelcome and Introductions
Greg Byrd, Associate Director, IBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State
9:10 AMKeynote Speaker
Jungsang Kim, Duke University
10:10 AM Break (20 min)
Contributed Talks
10:30 AM Melike Biliroglu, NC State University, Room Temperature Superfluorescence
10:55 AMJonathan Wierer, NC State University, III-nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits for Neutral Atom and Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing
11:20 AMKelvin Dsouza, NC State University, Modeling Spin Qubits in a Quantum Dot System
11:45 PMBoxed Lunch Break
Contributed Talks
12:45 PMFrank Fu, University of South Carolina, Modalities in Proto-Quipper
1:10 PMRabins Wosti, University of South Carolina, Implementing the Quantum Fanout Operation with Simple Pairwise Interactions
1:35 PMDror Baron and Hrushikesh Pramod Patil, NC State University, Qubit-Wise Majority Vote: Maximum Likelihood Quantum Error Mitigation for Algorithms with a Single Correct Output
2:00 PMBreak (15 min)
Contributed Talks
2:15 PMSrikar Chundury, NC State University, DiaQ: Efficient State-Vector Quantum Simulation
2:40 PMWladimir Silva, NC State University, Qontrast: Contrast Filters Mitigate Quantum Noise
3:05 PMPeiyi Li, NC State University, QuTracer: Mitigating Quantum Gate and Measurement Errors by Tracing Subsets of Qubits
3:30 PMThank You and Symposium Adjournment